| July Mardi Gras
05 *** Three young women are sacked from the Bryant
& May factory, East London for exposing it's appalling working conditions. The other
672 come out in solidarity. The Match Girls Strike is unsuccessful but the solidarity
generated nationally is unprecedented and galvanises the working class movement
(1888)
06 06x07=42 plus
Last day of Deptford X festival (Rocklands)
13 Live Aid (1985) "To me it is simply
a way of keeping people alive" (Bob Geldof) 2 billion people in over 100 countries
watched the greatest show on earth (Wembley Stadium UK and JFK Stadium Philadelphia) to
help Africa's starving millions.
14 Sports Charity week plus *** in 1935, people in
Harlem demonstrated in support of Ethiopian struggle against Italian fascism. Organisation
of volunteer brigades begins.
15 St Swithins Day - olde english folklore
16 Apology Day - instigated
by IRA in 002
20 Respect Anti Racism Festival, London -
now annual celebration in the capital of the world's most multi-culturally fused country;
La La Land.
28 Family Day (not everybody has a father,
or a mother - I’m a "bastard" myself, I get to save money on
"Father’s Day" and don’t have to suffer from my parent arguing with
herself. There are positive sides to one-parent families, but nobody says so! A family is
not defined by numbers, gender or blood, but by true love and respect. There is many a familyfriend circle on Planet Water i.e.
entertainers and their travelling posse are a familyfriend circle...
31 *** A Moscow
police chief declares that thousands of telephone booths have been rendered inoperable by
thieves who have stolen phone parts to convert their acoustic guitars to electric (1969) |
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